I am always experimenting on guests, and although I feel more or less assured that dinner will be edible, there is something impersonal about following a recipe or winging something for the first time.
"Waterford has so much to offer," she assured her dinner guests.
And when I book, the owner, Jo Gossett, emails me a simple but self-assured dinner menu, too.
He testified that the governor had attended a celebratory dinner with Mr. Matthews and had assured bankers at the dinner that the state would back Mr. Matthews in another project for which he was seeking funding.
But Frank managed to hook a legal four-pound bluefish, and dinner was assured.
Rest assured, there are disorderly dinners at her family's home and a rowdy wake attended by Grandma Mazur at Stiva's Funeral Home, along with the usual high jinks from the colorful crooks and perverts Stephanie encounters on the job.
I eventually got in touch with the human who appears to run Death Row Dinners, who assured me that's it's legit, and not just some weird joke.
By the way, Mr. Blankfein, the celebrity chef Mario Batali is graciously catering our dinner and has assured me that blood-sucking squid is not on the menu.
Suetonius, the gossipy historian, revealed that Augustus, the staunchly temperate first Roman emperor, could not resist Valpolicella wines, though — we are assured — he rarely drank before dinner.
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While we certainly respect his election-disgust, we couldn't help but mutter to each other, as we struggled to fall back asleep, "Why wasn't he dismayed earlier, like maybe around dinner time?" Rest assured we dispense a lot more than sports/political analysis and free dating advice in the middle of the night.
